The Wine Doctor explains that the Dönnhoff family have been making wine in Nahe since 1750, and the latest member of the dynasty to run the estate is Helmut. Over the centuries the family esta... Read More

"This vibrant Riesling is just off-dry, focused by finely placed acidity that drives the flavors of macerated peach and apricot, candied pink grapefruit and lemon curd, with a base of stony mi... Read More

A liquid molten silver shower of spice; fresh, lunar, firm grip, minty; long, but it’s a higher-up length, a breath-mint effect. If Brücke is a requiem, this is a wickedly comic operetta. If y... Read More

Each year Zind-Humbrecht produces some of Alsace’s most sumptuous and sought-after wines. The property is managed by Olivier Humbrecht, one of the world’s only winemakers to attain M.W. status... Read More

"This is a big Riesling, offering lots of minerally smoke on the nose and palate, with intensely vivacious, crackling acidity throughout. Flavors of white peach, papaya and star fruit are focu... Read More

The nose is very typical of Rangen. It shows lots of smoke, flinty aromas, which almost appear reductive or at least very mineral. The nose says it clearly: this is Rangen wine, as tough as it... Read More

"This shows lots of stony mineral on the nose and palate, with a smoky thread running through creamy layers of ripe apple, candied grapefruit zest and lots of ground spices—cumin, white pepper... Read More

"Rich and just off-dry, this Riesling is very aromatic with apple blossom and lychee notes, as well as pure flavors of patisserie apple and pear, pineapple, crystallized honey and candied pink... Read More

"In its author’s opinion, the extremely high acid Zind-Humbrecht 2008 Riesling Brand Selection de Grains Nobles comes off as more austere than its non-”late-harvested” counterpart, and he find... Read More